New Publications. Hypertext versions of NCRVE's full-length publications, newsletters, and digests are now available online:
Skill Standards. The NCRVE Dissemination Program has created a Web page that includes information on the twenty-two skill standards projects sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Education and Labor. The page contains links to online information about each of the projects, as well as contact names, addresses, and phone numbers.
Check it out at http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/Skills Page.html
Vocational Education Calendar. A comprehensive calendar of vocational education-related events is now available at the NCRVE homepage. The conferences entries give dates, location, sponsoring organization, and contacts for more information. The calendar is searchable by keyword.
Try it out at http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/Calendar Page.html
NCRVE's listserv discussion list DISSMN8 focuses on educational dissemination topics. If you are interested in discussing what a National Educational Dissemination System (NEDS) might look like, please join in. DISSMN8 now boasts 85 subscribers.
See the instructions at the end of this article for how you can participate!
VocServe was created back in December 1993 as a place where anyone with a computer and modem (or network connection) could share information and ideas, ask questions, and get information about NCRVE. The decision to offer a bulletin board service with dial-in capabilities (rather than just Internet-accessible services) was based on the wish to include those not yet "blessed" with Internet access. However, access to the Internet has increased dramatically since VocServe's creation. The percentage of dial-in connections to VocServe has plummeted from 60% in early 1994, to 14% currently. We suspect that the remaining modem-only users of VocServe could meet their needs equally well (and perhaps more cost-effectively) by using a local Internet provider to access NCRVE's Internet-based services for discussion (VOCNET and DISSMN8) and information sharing (WWW, Gopher, and FTP servers).
Discontinuing VocServe will enable us to focus resources on other electronic services, particularly via the World Wide Web and expanded electronic mailing list services. NCRVE will assist current VocServe users to find alternative methods of meeting their electronic communications needs. Call me at (800) (old phone deleted) with any questions.
Once you have subscribed, you may post items to VOCNET by sending e-mail to vocnet@cmsa. berkeley.edu; your message will be distributed by e-mail to all subscribers. VOCNET also exists as the Netnews newsgroup bit.listserv.vocnet.
DISSMN8--To subscribe, send a one-line e-mail message to listserv@cmsa.berkeley.edu that says: subscribe dissmn8 yourfirstname yourlastname For example, Carl Perkins would send the message subscribe dissmn8 Carl Perkins
Once you have subscribed, you may post items to DISSMN8 by sending e-mail to dissmn8@cmsa. berkeley.edu; your message will be distributed by e-mail to all subscribers.
World Wide Web--Point your internet WWW browser (Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx, etc.) to http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/
Gopher--Point your Gopher client (TurboGopher, Netscape, etc.) to gopher://vocserve.berkeley.edu/
FTP--Point your FTP program (Fetch, Netscape, etc.) to ftp://vocserve.berkeley.edu/FTP/ Log in with the user ID "anonymous," and provide your e-mail address as the password.